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9741 Database issue allows creation of articles davehope "My host killed the mysqld process, causing some of the MySQL tables to be flagged as corrupt (wp_options for one).
Wordpress thought it was a new installation, and showed wp-admin/install.php. Visitors were going through the install process setting the title of my site and wordpress created the ""About"" page, the example post and comment.
When I awoke, I repaired the corruption with myisamchk. In my case the page title hadn't been changed but the new items were created.
Some options I think would prevent this ocuring for others are:
- The installation page should require an admin to login if it's not the first installation. I'm not sure what would happen if the table holding user accounts was corrupt though.
- Do some checks on the status of the tables and halt the installation if any of the tables aren't in a healthy state?
My suggestion is probably more of an enhancement request that a bug, so I've filed it as such.
Thanks
Dave" enhancement closed normal Upgrade/Install 2.8 normal wontfix needs-patch